Biopsy Result and a chest X-Ray?
I was at hospital today to get results of biopsy on a mole. It’s fine, histology was clean. Atypical moles like this one are very hard to tell apart from actual melanoma and that’s where siascopy can really give an advantage as these moles raise enough doubt for a biopsy to take place. It was a mole I had scaned with the Siascope and the Siascan said it was fine, so the products work and should be used to save biposy of everything under the sun! Seriously I now have a big scar, just because the only tool my consultant had was a histology report.
However
Because yeah nothing is that simple! While having an all over check for enlarged lymph nodes (lumps) the consultant spent a lot of time on my right arm pit and in that general area. My face was one of shock when I was sent for a chest X-Ray. While in the X-Ray dept, dad asked if he could put the Germany game on. The TV was detuned and had no real signal, so he steped on a chair to fix it, the receptionist said he could have a scan if he fell off the chair.
Chest X-Ray’s basically are a way of checking that the lungs are ok. I’m encouraged because he said the nodes in my arm pit were fine so I suspect the scan is just to be safe. I hadn’t rated the one on my arm as being any kind of threat because it was much thinner than the one on my leg. It’s suprising to me that I still have my lymph nodes, but I really had thought my arm wouldn’t cause any problems.
This sucks big time, but it can keeping sucking big time as long as the scans are clear and so on. It should be fine and it’s good these scans happen and so on. I said from the start of this, it could always be worse, so I’m lucky it’s not and that is still true today.
Hi Lee,
Glad to hear your mole turned out benign. we’ve spoken on mail but for those reading from afar, I was diagnosed with MM at the age of 28 (last year).
Found a dodgy black patch on the back of my thigh last week, so straight to the dermatologist it was, who promptly removed that and another three moles. If I had my way I’d get him to remove the bloddy lot (all 94 I have) and start with a blank canvass.
It’s funny - once it’s out and you can’t look at it every five minutes, the stress almost fades away - UNTIL Pathology time that is!
Good Luck pal, loving the fact that Canada rains in summer and the factor 50 bottle is still pretty full!
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